Food on Fridays: There’s a new girl in town

And it’s time for her to make the donuts. Today’s Food on Fridays post takes a look at the latest addition to the doughnut scene in Tübingen: Amy’s Donuts & More.

I really did not intend to write about doughnuts again any time soon. But then last Saturday, Chris and I were walking on a street I don’t often walk down during the week, and we discovered a new store that had opened called Amy’s Donuts & More.

On the website, there’s an over-the-top heartwarming story about how a young girl named Amy, born in the U.S., moved to Germany and while she loved her adopted land, she missed her beloved American donuts. So, she searched Germany high and low to find the perfect spot to open her donut store, until she found that spot in Tübingen.

Hmm. Perhaps. Except in Germany, when you have a business website, you can be fined if you don’t have the accurate business owners information on what’s called an Impressum page.  And on Amy’s Impressum page, it appears 2 men are listed as the owners. But of course, the Wendy’s restaurant chain in the U.S.was founded by the titular Wendy’s dad, so maybe daughter Amy had the dream but her dad created the business? I wonder.

But really, that’s a digression. The back story of the shop doesn’t really matter.  The important thing to find out is, how are the donuts? As you might suspect, Chris and I were game to take on the challenge to find out last weekend.

Now, in standard German bakeries doughnuts are not typically sold by the box. But Amy’s shop, just like the Tasty Donuts store that opened here last fall, sells donuts by the box (as an option). It was cheaper by the half-dozen to buy them last Saturday than to just buy a couple, so Chris and I wound up with 6 different donuts to try.

Note that I am spelling Amy’s product “donut”. Just like the Tasty Donut shop, the only type of doughnuts Amy’s makes are ones with holes in the middle. This style of doughnut is consistently spelled “donut” here, because it is an American type, not a “native” German type.

Open box of Amy's Donuts

Open box of Amy’s Donuts

Amy’s donuts don’t seem to be as “picture-perfect” as the ones in the Tasty Donut store, even though her slogan is “Donuts and more in perfection”. But perhaps because they aren’t so perfectly symmetrical, the ones from Amy’s didn’t quite taste as plastic in consistency as the Tasty Donut one did on first bit. Which was a good thing. So, we did actually eat the Amy’s donuts we tried, compared to my barely making it through a bite or two before tossing out the rest of the Tasty Donut I sampled.

Taste-wise, I’d say Amy’s donuts were unfortunately not spectacular. The “American Pie” one, bottom left in the box in the photo above, was filled with applesauce. It sounded a bit off-putting, but it turned out to be the best of this bunch. It had no icing, and since the icing had an odd aftertaste and consistency, the lack of icing was a point in the “American Pie” donut’s favor.

Now it is true we barely scratched the surface of tasting the varieties at Amy’s Donuts with our small sample. Click here to go to a page where, if you click on each of the donut drawings at bottom will pull up a slide show of donut types. There are a lot of  different types to try. However, since we didn’t really care for any of the ones we did try,  I don’t think we’ll go back anytime soon. Ah well. The Berliners are still around until the beginning of next month when we want our donut — er, doughnut – fix.

BTW, all the donuts are decked out in fancy “dress” so what you might not suspect at a glance is that 4 of those 6 in that box are also filled.  Can you guess which ones are, in addition to the “American Pie”? The answers are in the gallery of images below. We asked the clerk if the donuts were made in this store, and she said no, they were baked in a neighboring town and then delivered to the store in Tübingen, where they are filled and the icing put on. That “American Pie” donut provides a clue as to how a donut with a hole in the middle is filled: the filling it injected in spots around the ring, not injected into the ring to run across the donut.  Since in most donuts the injection holes are then covered by the icing, it’s harder to see at a glance that the filling is just in spots, rather than throughout the ring of the donut.

Anyway, there are a few more comments on some of the photos in the gallery below. I’d say this should take care of our donut fix for a while … but just the day before yesterday I stumbled into yet another new thing in one of the regular German bakeries.  That will be the topic for next Friday.

Until then, enjoy this look at Amy’s offerings.

 

 


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